Philippe, you are of absolutely right about good generals. I was exaggerating my personification of what, I think, are widely perceived national characteristics of a sense fair play & masochism for comic effect. The game's developers have done an amazing job, & their AI is still quite challenging fo...

Thanks for the welcome Captain_Orso :) Just sorry that my first post was to report minor issues in such a great & detailed game. I'm not a complete novice, as I've been playing the game on & off for two years. But I feel like I've barely scratched its surface. My recent return to playing the game wa...

Hi, my first ever post, so please be gentle with me if I'm missing something obvious... like posting in wrong place on forum! I'm playing v.1.16 1861 w/Kentucky Campaign as Union. 1. It's Feb'62 & Edwin Sumner gets automatically scripted promotion to ** General. Among the other messages that same tu...